The Baby Cafe

Our keynote speaker this year was Dr. Helen Ball who runs the Parent-Infant Sleep Lab at Durham University Dept. of Anthropology. Her current research involves behavioural and physiological investigations of infant sleep, particularly of co-sleeping parents and infants, from an evolutionary perspective.
Dr Ball's research

Workshop sessions and speaker presentations included:

	Baby Cafés and young people/peer mentoring
	Funding your Baby Café centre
	Using visual aids and analogies when working with breastfeeding mums
	Translating theory into practice - helping mothers reconcile current recommendations with cultural expectations
	Your Baby Café and the voluntary sector
	How your Baby Café can deliver the Gold Standard, each and every time.

Conference Photos

Presentations and workshop sessions from Dr. Helen Ball, Catherine Pardoe, Sue Upstone, Helen Bilton and Margaret Holtz with her Baby Café bear.

Delegates enjoyed the chance to network and buy resources.

Margaret Holtz showed us Baby Café Norfolk style, complete with freshly brewed coffee and home made cakes.

Rewarding nominated Baby Café volunteers with certificates. Sue Richards is shown receiving certificates on behalf on Abingdon volunteers who were unable to attend.

Julie Williams presents complimentary copies of the new Baby Café DVD to Angie Cartwright and Suzanne Cohen of Cobridge and Sure Start King's Cross and Holborn Baby Café drop-ins in appreciation of their assistance with filming the DVD.

The Baby Café Conference Team take a breather as the day ends.

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